Song of The Day

I Can Not Keep From Cryin'

Song of The Day: Radio Campaign, by M. Ward. The album is Transistor Radio.

Fake Empire



Song of this Day is Fake Empire, by The National. The album is Boxer.

Halving The Compass



Our SOng of The Day it brought to us today by the band Helios. It's a song called Halving The Compass, and it's on their album Eingya.

Enjoy


I'm A Lie Detector

Song of The Day= Gillian Was A Horse, Damien Jurado, Caught In Trees.

From time to time I'm sure songs of the day will repeat because they're the best songs I've heard on that day. This one will be back.

Ugly Duckling



The Song of The day is Einstein's Takin' Off, by Ugly Duckling, off the album Fresh Mode.


Dinosaur Nose

Here is an example of the great artwork you will randomly find at The Squatter's Studio.


Also, today's Song of The Day comes from the soundtrack to The Life Aquatic. It's Seu Jorge performing the song Star Man by David Bowie, in Portuguese.

Song of the day

This one comes from the band Luna, form the album Rendezvous. It's called Malibu Love Nest.

By the way, if anyone knows of a MP3 player that will show up in Reader, please let me know. This one used to (for like a week), but doesn't anymore.

The Laie House

Here's a fun little piece I did for a production group called Enlisted. I wrote it while on O'ahu at the Laie house during the Film is Not Dead workshop. I think I have some pics of me doing it actually.

Here's one Camille took.

Here's an overhead shot from my phone for good measure.



And here's one of me and my buddy Grant with Terry O'Quinn, the actor who plays John Locke on the popular TV show Lost. We met him at a surf competition at Sunset Beach. He's a very nice guy, and he didn't kill anyone.
This wonderful picture was taken by Brion Hopkins.

Adventures in Music for Motion Pictures

The new Mac Book Pros are out. Which means the old ones are cheaper! A perfect time to buy. Which I did, for about a thousand and some less than what I would have paid the day before. Thanks not only to the new version, but also Cole's student discount, and the BYU bookstore's sale. Yeah! And to tell you the truth, I much prefer the old one to the new, for a few reasons.

First the new ones only come with a glossy screen, which to me is very annoying. I like to sit in sunny places.
I'm not that into the black. I like the Chiclet keys alright, but I'm betting the next generation with look better.
I don't like that there is only one firewire port and it isn't the one you'd regularly use (400) it's the 800. Which has it's advantages for speed, granted, but it makes your current cables, and some hardware incompatible, and those weren't cheap. They invented firewire, they can do what they like. I suppose it isn't that big a deal, but I'd rather wait 'till the next generation to deal with it.
It has that wonderful solid body, and the display is LCD and glass which is great. The track pad is also very cool. All glass and the entire pad is the button. Wonderful stuff that I will enjoy someday, but the guts are about the same. Not any faster.

For my applications the computer I bought is the better one I think. The only thing I can complain about is the disappearance of a the numeric keypad that used to be on the UIO JKL M keys. I know most people, especially the casual mac users, don't use them, but for some of my applications, especially Reason 4 (big angry blog to come), I very much need them. I spent a good part of my day today trying to figure a way around this, searching blogs, FAQ's on both Reason's, and Apple's sites, then even more on the phone with apples "geniuses", but there apparently is no way around it. It's just gone. What's that you say? Just go get a numeric keypad USB thingy? You would have thought I'd thought of that. NO! The whole point of having the lappy is to be portable. I can't go lugging around more and more stuff that should already be at my finger tips. Besides the only two USB ports are already being used by my midi key board (blog to come) and the Mbox2 Micro (blog also to come). But I'm not licked yet. I still have some exploring to do yet in Reason.

Song of the day

I'm going to start posting a song of the day. I'll do one either every day, or every other day, just whatever the best song or piece of music I heard that day. There are some days when I don't hear any music at all, or just my own. So I may skip those days.
Today's song of the day is a remix of Telepopmusik's song Smile, by Paris Lounge.
Enjoy